2025
ICD-10-CM
Diagnosis
Code

R51 Headache

  • Non-billable
  • 2016–2025

R51 is a non-billable/non-specific diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Headache.

Type 2 excludes

  • Atypical face pain (G50.1)

  • Migraine and other headache syndromes (G43-G44)

  • Trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0)

Codes

Versions

  1. 2025

    No changes

  2. 2024

    No changes

  3. 2023

    No changes

  4. 2022

    No changes

  5. 2021

    Code changed

    • Type 1 excludes

        • atypical face pain (G50.1)
        • migraine and other headache syndromes (G43-G44)
        • trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0)
    • Type 2 excludes

        • atypical face pain (G50.1)
        • migraine and other headache syndromes (G43-G44)
        • trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0)
    • Inclusion term

        • Facial pain NOS
  6. 2020

    No changes

  7. 2019

    No changes

  8. 2018

    No changes

  9. 2017

    No changes

  10. 2016

    New code